If you are a teacher or facilitator planning a session you will find all the resources related to each story here.

Values, Money and Me is an interactive financial education e-learning resource.

Values Money and Me is the UK's first free online teaching resource specifically designed to give young children a head start in life by helping develop their financial knowledge and abilities, as well as their attitudes and values towards money. Based in the fictional community of Pride Place, character-lead learning explores the families and their stories with interactive books, activities and quizzes.

The four step plan for educational delivery

Read the online
storybook

Play the
activity

Test with
the quiz

Explore
at home

The interactive e-learning suite, games, downloadable lesson plans and classroom materials provide a variety of learning opportunities that can be linked to subject areas, including PSHE, Citizenship, Mathematics, English and History.

Values, Money and Me contain 10 story units, each of which centres on a storybook and has accompanying downloadable lesson plans and classroom materials, as well as online interactive quizzes and games.

Read VMM ground rules here

Story unit summaries

Do the Right Thing

This unit centres on Lily and the moral dilemmas she faces as she tries to be popular at school by bringing the 'best' donation for the charity auction event.

KS1

Charity Job Week

This unit centres on the friends in KS1 at Pride Place Primary School and their fundraising activities for charity.

KS1

Charity Job Week

This unit centres on the friends in KS2 at Pride Place Primary School and their fundraising activities for charity.

KS2

Hero or Zero

This unit centres on Sue Lee and her friend Mrs Goleska. When Mrs Goleska asks Sue to help her out by taking some old things to the charity shop she doesn't realise she has put her son's army service medal in the bag too.

KS1

Finders Keepers

This KS1 unit gives a range of opportunities for children to explore their values in relation to found money or property, the rights and wrongs of keeping such items and the law.

KS1

Finders Keepers

This KS2 unit gives a range of opportunities for children to explore their values in relation to found money or property, the rights and wrongs of keeping such items and the law.

KS2

A Fair Day's Pay

This unit centres on Debbie Clayton's payslip. Children will explore why deductions, such as income tax, are taken from earnings. Learning the purpose of what central and local taxation pays for.

KS2

Costing the Earth

Children will explore how energy is used in the home and discover simple strategies to conserve energy.

KS1/2

I Want It!

This unit centres on Tara and her mother. Tara is now old enough to get some pocket money and to save up for things she may wish to buy.

KS1/2

Do You Need It?

This unit the Deacon family and the dilemma they face when their TV breaks and they consider borrowing money to buy a new one.

KS2

Planning and reference documents

pdf

Ground Rules

Creating a safe environment

pdf

Good Work Stickers

Please note

The interactive stories and calculators are embedded in the website for easy access but be aware that they are intended to be delivered as part of the whole unit, not as a standalone activity. They are designed as a starting point and a shared activity to engage the class and act as a springboard for the lessons. To ensure that children get the best out of the resource it is advised that you download and plan the whole unit, taking time to see how the elements fit together before you begin.

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Values, Money and Me is an interactive financial education e-learning resource.

The four step plan for educational delivery